RTX A6000 rental: cheapest among tracked providers
Cheapest among tracked providers for 100 hours a month: RunPod RTX A6000 (Community Cloud) at $33.00. Change hours or GPU count in the calculator.
| # | GPU | Vendor | Type | Rate | 100 h/month | Full month (730 h) | Vendor quote | Verified | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX A6000 48 GB | RunPod | Community Cloud | $0.33/hr | $33.00 | $240.90 | “RTX A6000 $0.33/hr” | 2026-10-27 | referral |
| 2 | RTX A6000 48 GB | Thunder Compute | on-demand | $0.35/hr | $35.00 | $255.50 | “RTX A6000 48GB $0.35/hr” | 2026-10-27 | referral |
| 3 | RTX A6000 48 GB | RunPod | Secure Cloud | $0.59/hr | $59.00 | $430.70 | “RTX A6000 48GB $0.59/hr” | 2026-10-27 | referral |
Basis: hourly rate × hours; dedicated servers are a flat monthly price. One GPU. Excludes storage, egress and tax.
Read before comparing
Rankings are the cheapest among tracked providers on our check date, not across the whole market. Vendors we don't track may cost less.
GPU-hours vs wall-clock time
Prices are per GPU-hour: one GPU for one hour. Four GPUs for 10 wall-clock hours is 40 GPU-hours. Per-second billing (serverless) charges only while your code runs; hourly pods bill from start to stop, idle time included; monthly servers bill a flat price whatever you use. A faster GPU can finish the same job in fewer GPU-hours, so the lowest hourly rate isn't always the lowest cost per job.
Hardware differences
The same GPU name can mean different hardware. SXM modules link GPUs over NVLink and run at higher power limits than PCIe cards, so an H100 SXM is usually faster than an H100 PCIe, especially for multi-GPU training. Interconnect between GPUs and nodes (NVLink, InfiniBand, plain Ethernet) is rarely listed on pricing pages; treat it as unknown unless the vendor states it. VRAM decides which models fit at all. Hardware as listed: RTX A6000 48 GB (not stated).
Egress and storage extras
Totals on this page exclude these. Each cell cites the vendor page it came from; unknown means the vendor doesn't publish it there.
| Vendor | Egress | Storage | Interruption / billing terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod | unknown: Not published on the pricing page. (checked 2026-10-27) | Container disk $0.10/GB/mo; volume disk $0.10/GB/mo running, $0.20/GB/mo idle; network storage $0.07/GB/mo under 1 TB, $0.05/GB/mo over 1 TB. (source, 2026-10-27) | Listed rates are on-demand Pod prices (Secure Cloud and Community Cloud). (source, 2026-10-27) |
| Thunder Compute | No egress fees ($0.00/GB). (source, 2026-10-27) | Instance disk: first 100 GB per GPU included, then $0.219/GB/mo while running; snapshots $0.05/GB/mo. (source, 2026-10-27) | Instances and sandboxes are never preempted. Instances (including extra vCPUs and disk) are billed per minute while running. (source, 2026-10-27) |
Interruptible vs on-demand
Interruptible (preemptible or spot) capacity can be stopped by the vendor mid-job and is usually cheaper; on-demand runs until you stop it. Every rate listed here is on-demand; none is marked interruptible by its vendor.
FAQ
What is the cheapest RTX A6000 per hour among tracked providers?
RunPod RTX A6000 (Community Cloud) at $0.33/hr, per the vendor's pricing page checked 2026-10-27. That's $33.00 for 100 GPU hours.
What does a full month of RTX A6000 cost?
Running one GPU all month (730 h), the lowest verified option among tracked providers is RunPod RTX A6000 (Community Cloud) at about $240.90.
What is the difference between RunPod Community Cloud and Secure Cloud?
Both are per-hour pods. Community Cloud runs on vetted third-party hosts and costs less; Secure Cloud runs in RunPod's partner data centers. Pick Secure Cloud for sensitive data or stricter uptime needs.
What isn't included in these prices?
Storage, data egress, extra vCPU/RAM and taxes. Prices are list or 'from' prices; confirm on the vendor page before you rent.
How are these prices verified?
Each row quotes the vendor's own pricing page and shows the date it was checked. Offers without a verified price aren't listed, and referral links don't change the order.
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